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[Pictured] Photographer Caren Alpernal's
photos of food magnified by an electron microscope are surprising, beautiful, and totally unrecognizable. Alpernal gets extra close-up with a radish (magnified 60 times), salt (magnified 45x), cauliflower (850x), shrimp (230x), and more.
—Karen Shimizu• There's an old adage in hockey: "If you can't beat them on the ice, then beat them in the alley." After this year's Beef Bowl, an annual tradition during the run-up to College Football's Rose Bowl game, I imagine Wisconsin Badger fans must have been saying: "If we can't beat them on the field,
at least we can out-eat them in the dining room!"
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